Konrad Becker is a pioneer in media art and electronic music. He is known for initiating
seminal and controversial net-culture projects. A thinker and activist,
he has curated and organized a large number of international
conferences and exhibitions. His recent book, "Strategic Reality
Dictionary" published by Autonomedia, addresses issues of cultural
agency beyond the tactical. He now runs the World-Information Institute
in Vienna, doing critical research into culture and technology.

Raul Marroquin was born in Bogota, Colombia, in 1948 and has lived
in the Netherlands since 1971. He has worked with film, video and
photography as well as installations. He is considered one of the
pioneers of video art in the
Netherlands.

Luchezar Boyadjiev is a Bulgarian artist, working and living in Sofia,
Bulgaria. As an Eastern European artist he often found himself in
the position of a GastArtBeiter
after the fall of Communism in EE.

Florian Schneider is a filmmaker, writer, and developer in the fields of
new media, networking and open source technologies. In his work he
focuses on bordercrossings between mainstream and independent media, art
and activism, theory and technology.

Born 1969 in Nova Gorica, Slovenia, Peljhan in 1992 graduated from the
Academy for Theatre, Radio, Film and Television in Ljubljana. Also in
1992 he founded the arts organization 'Projekt Atol' and in 1995 Project
Atol`s technological branch 'Pact Systems' (Projekt Atol Communication
Technologies) in the frame of which he carries out research in the
fields of performance, technology applications, radio, sound, video,
film, lectures and situations.

b 1957 in Philadelphia (USA); 1978?82 study of art at the Cooper Union
of Art, New York (USA), under Hans Haacke, Vito Acconci and Martha
Rosler, degree of Bachelor of Arts; since 1981 in cooperation with Nam
June Paik; 1985 starting his own production of tapes and installations;
1990 Artist in Residence at the Video Fest Berlin (D); lives in New
York (USA).

Furtherfield is an artist organisation founded by artists Ruth Catlow and Marc Garrett in 1997
and sustained by the work of its community as the Internet took shape
as a new public space for internationally connected cultural production.

Jordan Crandall is an artist, theorist, and performer based in Los
Angeles. His video installations, presented in numerous exhibitions
worldwide, combine formats and genres deriving from cinematic and
military culture, exploring new regimes of power and their effects on
subjectivity, sociality, embodiment, and desire. Crandall writes and
lectures regularly at various institutions across the US and Europe. He
is the 2011 winner of the Vilém Flusser Theory Award for outstanding
theory and research-based digital arts practice, given by the
Transmediale in Berlin in collaboration with the Vilém Flusser Archive
of the University of Arts, Berlin. He is currently (2012) an Honorary Resident
at Eyebeam art and technology center in New York, where he is
continuing the development of a new body of work that blends performance
art, political theater, philosophical speculation, and intimate
reverie. The work, entitled UNMANNED, explores new ontologies of
distributed systems -- a performative event-philosophy in the form of a
book and a theatrical production. He is also the founding editor of
the new journal VERSION.

Not An Alternative is a non-profit organization based in Brooklyn, New York, whose mission aims to integrate art, activism and theory in order to affect popular understandings of events, symbols and history. The organization operates a multi-purpose venue named The Change You Want to See Gallery and Convergence Stage, where free and low-cost lectures, screenings, panel discussions, workshops and artist presentations occurs. The space also consists of a production workshop, filming studio and video editing suite. During the day it is a collaborative office space (aka coworking) for like minded cultural producers.